1. J. Meyer European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
ESRF News
J. Meyer
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
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Outline
General ESRF News
Beamline News
Tango News
TANGO:
Middleware and application layer of our control system
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3. Tango Collaboration Meeting
General ESRF News
ESRF 20-year celebration : November 2008
The 20th anniversary of the signature of the agreements that established the ESRF
But after 20 years:
Problems with aging of equipment
RF cavity needed to be changed due to vacuum leaks
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4. Tango Collaboration Meeting
General ESRF News
W.D. Klotz joined ITER as head of the controls group
L. Claustre was assigned as the new head of the BLISS group
Creation of a new accelerator and beamline support division
Final decision end of the year 2008
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5. Tango Collaboration Meeting
General ESRF News
Vibration studies
1200 kg iron cylinder drop onto the asphalt floor
Vibration measurements all around the storage ring
Results will be used to specify the new vibrations-free experimental hall extensions
Minimization of vibrations is a key aspect for the nanoscience beamlines
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6. Tango Collaboration Meeting
Beamline News
300 axes installed with icepap motor controller
Configuration tool developed by ALBA
Remote experiment control for crystallography beamlines
User authentication
Master / Slave mode for control application
Always possible to get back the local master control
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Beamline News
Fast acquisition with 2D detectors
Sarnoff CAM512
2x8 ADCs – 12 bit
512 x 300 fps  150 MB/s
10 Gbps Ethernet
Camera Link
Fiber optic
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Beamline News
Espia #1
Espia #2
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Beamline News
Espia Acquisition Card:
Designed to interface the FReLoN 2k
Manufactured by SECAD (Grenoble)
Specs. fixed by ESRF
2 Gbps fiber optic link (> 100 m)
~180 MB/s maximum data rate
Driver source code available
Can write on 32-bit addresses only (4 GB)
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Beamline News
FOCLA Camera Link:
Connects to the Espia  fiber optic
2 x Camera Link [Base] connectors
Test image generator  ~180 MB/s
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Beamline News
Conclusion:
Supports all most recent fast 2D detectors:
Same low level driver
Stable and functional software
Data saving:
Remote NetApp + 10 Gigabit ethernet link  ~200 MB/s
4 local RAID disks (raw format)  ~400 MB/s
10 local RAID disks (raw format)  ~800 MB/s
Bottleneck in acquisition card:
Short term  PCI-E Espia upgrade + 4 FO links
Medium-long term  High performance architecture
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12. Tango Collaboration Meeting
Tango News
Startup and shutdown problems of the Tango control system solved
It is now possible to start and stop hundreds of servers with Astor in one go
E. Taurel will report in the Tango kernel talk
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13. Tango Collaboration Meeting
Tango News
The FRMII neutron source in Garching, Germany is investigating to switch from Taco to Tango
Visit at the ESRF in March
MAX-lab in Lund, Sweden has asked for a Tango training
A date might be fixed for June
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